Word: readers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several of the climances that occur in the course of the story, the feeling is not sustained enough, and the situations fail to give their proper effect-the real effect produced on the reader being a slight sense of artificiality, Such a description of Beverly's character as is given in the first chapter by repeating a few stories of his childhood seems not only totally unnecessary, but entirely out of accord with the main tone of the book...
...best audiences we have ever seen in that place. Every seat was filled, and many were obliged to stand during the whole time. There was an unusually large number of ladies present. The size of the audience made the air of the room rather oppressive and uncomfortable for both reader and listeners...
...uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my reader has long since preceded...
...have been seeking to find a place to insert a portion of a dream I had a few nights ago. It may be wearisome, but I am bent on making it public. "The prophet that bath a dream let him tell it," says Jeremiah. You, my kind but tired reader, I advise to stop at the end of this sentence. For I warn you,- there are no angels, or robbers, or Frenchmen's calculus problems, or earthquakes to recommend my dream to you. It is a very commonplace bit of allegory. For you who are listening I begin...
...marginal notations that have in past years accumulated on the pages of the different works. Such a collection would doubtless meet with a great deal of favor-with as much favor, possibly, as the notes themselves in their present written form have met with. It is refreshing-to the reader (to him especially who aims at becoming a "full man," as Bacon puts it,) to find here and there the very brilliant remarks of a very bril-dull man; comments on the author's style, questions and expressed doubts on certain passages, very wonderful and skilful corrections, humorous passages explained...